LOWBROW TAROT PROJECT

The Lowbrow Tarot Project will showcase 23 amazing artists who will use their creative genius and unique style to take on the 22 Major Arcana [+ the card back] and create 23 new works of art in the rugged glow of the lowbrow art movement to be displayed in an exhibition and table top book and full color card deck in 2010 at Billy Shire Fine Arts.

"There are 22 cards in the Major Arcana, each showing some aspect of the human experience. The cards of the Major Arcana are focused on three themes: the realm of the material world, the realm of the intuitive mind, and the realm of change."

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These particular 23 artists that were chosen is a very well rounded lot. Also it couldn't have been easy to narrow it down to just the 23. Bravo.

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Psychomagic

Another Thing I Wanted To Tell You

"I had to invent another technique. Psychomagic." said Director Alejandro Jodorowsky on tarot reading.

More on Jodo and his tarot reading in the Spring 2009 AnOther magazine.

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Osho Zen Tarot

Osho Zen Tarot

Ripeness

When the fruit is ripe, it drops from the tree by itself. One moment it hangs by a thread from the branches of the tree, bursting with juice. The next moment it falls--not because it has been forced to fall, or has made the effort to jump, but because the tree has recognized its ripeness and simply let it go. When this card appears in a reading it indicates that you are ready to share your inner riches, your 'juice'. All you need to do is relax right where you are, and be willing for it to happen. This sharing of yourself, this expression of your creativity, can come in many ways--in your work, your relationships, your everyday life experiences. No special preparation or effort on your part is required. It is simply the right time.

See which card you draw today from the Osho Zen Tarot

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Jodorowsky : “Peace Is Yours.”

"You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold", Alejandro Jodorowsky explains in his film The Holy Mountain. Because Jodorowsky the alchemist uses his work as an athanor. The initiation is made up of films (Fando & Lys, El Topo, Santa Sangre...), of strip cartoons (L’Incal, created with Moebius, La Caste des Métabarrons, created with Giménez...), of books and of the Tarot.

”...Peace can be true, we have evidence of it... The evidence - here it is - you see here we have a miracle. Look at the pleasure that this cat has in communicating with a human being. I’m not his master, I’m only a human being. It could take exactly the same pleasure with you. Do you want to see? Take the cat...You see... Stroke it... Here it is, it’s yours. Peace is yours.”

Alexandro Jodorowsky indeed dispenses the philosophy of the Tarot each Wednesday in a Parisian cafe, just to help those who suffer. The poet sows the seeds of consciousness. This interview took place a few minutes before one of these readings.

I like that he's seen petting a cat, writing poetry, and giving tarot readings. Sure helps to put a more normal face on this amazing director of very bizarre films.

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Magic Comic Ride
In his fantastical "Promethea" series, Alan Moore indulges his fascinations with tantric sex and the tarot -- and reveals his take on kabbalistic philosophy.

When "Promethea" began its 32-issue comic-book run in 1999, it looked like it was going to be British writer Alan Moore's riff on Wonder Woman: a story about a superheroine with mythological connections, one of the flagship titles of Moore's whimsical America's Best Comics project. By the time it ended a few months ago (the final sequence is collected in "Promethea Book 5," to be published in a couple of weeks by ABC), it had turned into something very different: a rather wonderful excuse for the 51-year-old Moore to explain his version of hermetic Kabbalistic philosophy.

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ADP - Bob Dylan has given the go-ahead for a big-screen movie about his life. Director Todd Haynes is searching for a black woman to play Dylan -- she will be one of seven different actors who will portray the musician during different eras of his career. Todd Haynes, the Oscar-nominated director, confirmed last week that he is searching for a woman who can do justice to the short white Jewish singer’s 'inner blackness', although the producers aren't convinced. Costing £30m, the film is due for release next year under the title, I’m Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan. [more...] (ADP-Another Dylan Post)

Get a reading from The Goddess Tarot Oracle to find what your goddess has in store for you. (via: etherealgirl)

{BlogNod}
Lauren's Feministe is a very smart and witty interactive blog. There's Open Blogging where anyone can post. Like Open Mic Night, but for blogging. And also the Random 10 on Fridays for listing random songs that are currently playing on your ipod or music device. Good content with an intelligent voice should keep you busy reading for a long time.

Asheville Full Moon Gatherings - Our next event will be Friday, March 25th to celebrate the Full Moon in Libra and the Sun in Aries.

Today's Quote
Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance, in the middle of fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you are perfectly free.
~Rumi

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PICK A CARD - Osho Zen Tarot Reading - The Osho site has lots of goodies-- meditation, music, shopping and more.

KEYBOARD CONFESSIONAL, by Tamara Wieder, Boston Phoenix. A programmer's 'little' side project of anonymous confessions, GroupHug.us, (remember them?) received over 13 million hits in its first three months. The best are now collected in a book: 'Stoned, Naked, and Looking in My Neighbor's Window.' Those who registered their love at GroupHug may be feeling ripped off right about now. [more...]

Sadly, DW Cooper, one of our blog friends, and part of the great Chapel Perilous family, has passed on. (via sauceruney & ollapodrida)

You can wait here in the sitting room or you can sit there in the waiting room. -- Firesign Theatre

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Weekend Webtrail



New article on Chilean-born director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who is best known for his psychedelic, violent movies (El Topo, The Holy Mountain), but he has also been, at one time or another during his 75 years on Earth, the mime protégé of Marcel Marceau, a surrealist performance artist, an esoteric comic-book author, and a tarot card reader. He recently spoke about "Psychomagic," a healing practice developed by Jodorowsky that "uses the language of the subconscious to undo our deepest knots, phobias, fixations, and obsessions." more »



Keith Richards and Johnny Depp hire CREEM hacks to polish first draft of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Treasures Of The Lost Abyss? more »



How to use a hand puppet to get dates. Hey, guys, you may have been doing it all wrong. Link via jwalk



Watch Me Turn 30 - is a photo documented blog that's nicely executed.



James Lee Burke - One of my favorite authors with a new article in January Magazine. more »



Pool betting on Dylan's setlists. 60 Minutes interview Sunday night was good. link



Haiku For You

I've been abducted

And replaced by a geezer

Though she wears my clothes



Today's Quote

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. ~Nietzsche



Finally. My server was down over the weekend to move from MA to NY and is due to be up and running today by noon.

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The Eatpoo Tarot Card Project involves over 90 artists from around the world illustrating the fortune telling cards of the tarot. This particular artwork by Julie Dillon

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GOP Pressures Rock the Vote to Stop Talking About the Draft - Link



The worst thing you can be in this world is ahead of your time. Socrates? He’ll be havin’ the hemlock, neat. Galileo? Give him the stake, make sure it’s well done. Lenny Bruce? An OD was too easy ... . Comedian Lenny Bruce, who ran fatally afoul of the status quo, gets his due in a new six-CD set.

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mullet haiku

Rusty chain link fence

Pitbulls bark at passers-by

Meth lab vapors rise



Go Redsox!

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A conversation between Kurt Vonnegut and out-of-print science fiction writer Kilgore Trout. It was to be their last. Trout committed suicide by drinking Drano at midnight on October 15 in Cohoes, New York, after a female psychic using tarot cards predicted that the environmental calamity George W. Bush would once again be elected president of the most powerful nation on the planet by a five-to-four decision of the Supreme Court, which included “100 per-cent of the black vote.”



Buy Nothing Day - November 26.



I'm back home and hope to return to blogspeed soon with a whole lotta visits and postings going on. xoxo



Take revenge: Shit on a pigeon.

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Monday was full of errands. Don't you love going to the DMV (Department Of Motor Vehicles)? I had only 19 people ahead of me, so it could have been worse. And has.



World Of Alternatives - A Portal of Brainwave Harmonics, Alternative Medicine, Pagan, Homeopathy, Psychedelic, New Age and Occult links covering the whole world wide web. Specialist links to Magick, Crop Circles, Tarot, Wicca, Paranormal is called, Strange Directory, and is believed to be the largest database of its kind.



Too much posturing and bravado appearing in the US Presidential election ads. The Cowboy vs The Soldier. Kerry likes to spend his time riding Harleys or slaughtering wildlife and 'Bring It On' Bush likes to spend his free time clearing brush on his Texas ranch, dressed in a sweaty T-shirt and a cowboy hat. Just two macho men running for Prez.



We should have an arena for Bush and Kerry, pull out a ruler (or yardstick?) and be done with it. The winner would be the one with the biggest.... biceps. [link via kane]



{Quote Of The Day}

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. ~ Heda Bejar

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{My Morning WebTrax}

Defective Yeti sez: "Help a brother out -- another Wellstone Memorial would be awesome." The Democratic National Committee, citing the "unfair advantage" accrued by the Bush campaign in the wake of Ronald Reagan's passing, today called on Bill Clinton to perish in late September or October of this year. "Oh c'mon, you finished your book. What do you have left to live for, Hillary?" DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe suggested to Bill Clinton that he die by "running into a burning building to save a child" or "getting the shiv while thwarting a mugging" for maximum effect. He implored Clinton, however, to assiduously avoid those fatalities that in any way involve oral sex.



COUP D'ETAT: The Real Reason Tenet and Pavitt Resigned from the CIA on June 3rd and 4th.

Both resignations, perhaps soon to be followed by resignations from Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage, are about the imminent and extremely messy demise of George W. Bush and his Neocon administration in a coup d'etat being executed by the Central Intelligence Agency. The coup, in the planning for at least two years, has apparently become an urgent priority as a number of deepening crises threaten a global meltdown. I'm still looking over the link and the references, as I'm not familiar with the author's work or the website. But the story's intriguing, if true. More »

Friday Fun

Online Tarot Reading from the Déja Deck.Or how about an 8-Ball reading? Click on the graphic.

But, probably of the many True Oracles, none are more profound than the Mystical Smoking Head of 'Bob'. Click on 'Bob' for a reading.



Enjoy your Friday. I'm currently overmedicating the ass-end of a 3-day migraine. So please shut the door, walk softly and turn out the lights when you leave.

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Beautiful art;especially the Tarot deck. link seen @ sugar 'n' spicy. Ilana always has great artsy links and blogs from Israel.

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